His princeton's speech is a personal favorite of mine. And specifically these following questions:<p><i>Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life -- the life you author from scratch on your own -- begins.</i><p><i>How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make?</i><p><i>Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?</i><p><i>Will you follow dogma, or will you be original?</i><p><i>Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure?</i><p><i>Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions?</i><p><i>Will you bluff it out when you're wrong, or will you apologize?</i><p><i>Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love?</i><p><i>Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling?</i><p><i>When it's tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless?</i><p><i>Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder?</i><p><i>Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?</i>
My personal values match those of Bezos. I have also also lived by the regret minimization framework (although I never called it that).<p>I believe the only way to live is to live in the long term. Short term problems that trouble you at the present are exactly that, short term.<p>Could anybody recommend a good biography of his life?
For those who want it in video format, here's Bezos on regret minimization <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwG_qR6XmDQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwG_qR6XmDQ</a>